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Vol.19, No.0, 403 ~ 413, 2008
Title
A Study on Changes in Cultural Meaning of Tattoos in Korean Society
강은주 Kang Eun-ju
Abstract
Our country has put tattoos under a taboo. Injuring bodies inherited from parents has been recognized as blasphemous and they were used as a means to punish criminals. However, as post modern thoughts appeared in many areas of our society in late 20th century, existing recognition changed and more attention has been given to bodies, various forms of art relating to bodies appeared. Among them, tattoos that have been recognized as distrust and hatred to our society began to have been recognized as positive because of popular stars and are accepted as a new cultural behavior by mass psychology to imitate their fashion, ornaments, and behaviors. So tattoos become recreational rather than a form of resistance against class and generation that was a cultural property of tattoos. So their negative recognition was substituted by positive recognition of an artistic form that expresses internal image of people targeting human bodies. And, as various community groups that were generated along with emergence of new technology of internet network and multi-media accepted fandom actively, tattoos is becoming a central subject of new sub-culture creation of the 21st century.
Key Words
타투, 문화, 대중심리, tattoo, culture, mass psychology
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